Your Breakthrough Year: 5 Days of Inspiration to Kickstart Your New YearSample

DAY 5 – DEATH OF A DREAM

Melek Sert was five months pregnant when she went to the hospital with severe pain and bleeding. But then her bleeding stopped and she was discharged from the hospital and returned home. However, the next day she and her husband Hasan went back to the hospital with the same complaint.

She was constantly monitored because of the risk of miscarriage. She ended up giving birth early but was told by the doctors her baby son was stillborn. She was given a death certificate and a small funeral bag by the Seyhan State Hospital in Turkey.

Hasan took the baby to the Herekli Neighborhood Cemetery to bury him. As Hasan drove to the cemetery, he began to hear the baby cry. He stopped the car and unzipped the bag. He took off his jacket, wrapped it around the baby, and turned the car heater all the way up.

The ambulance came and the baby was taken to the Adana City Research Hospital and treated in intensive care. The baby was in critical condition with low blood pressure. But Melek saw that her baby was alive! His hands and feet were fidgeting, his heart was beating.

The couple was in shock. Their infant son was born prematurely but alive not dead. They went from total despair to incredible joy. Their child is alive and now they pray he gets better: for his continued growth and complete health.

Luke 15:24 says, “This son of mine was dead, but has now come back to life. He was lost and has now been found. And they began to celebrate.” In this story of the Prodigal Son, he was not actually dead, but it seemed like he was because he had left home. When he returned the father was overjoyed that his “dead” son had come back home.

Hasan and Melek thought their infant son was dead, the father thought his prodigal son was dead and gone forever. We can experience the death of a dream and it can feel as real as any death.

When we hope for, pray for, and work for a dream to become reality and it does not, it’s like death. We are left with shock, pain, and grief. All appears to be lost. It seems like our life has no purpose or meaning.

But God has a way of restoring what is lost, resurrecting what is dead. We may be ready to bury the dream when God moves in a way that is undeniable. Your dream is not dead – it’s very much alive.